Present Perfect Subjunctive in Spanish

Welcome to our lesson about the conjugation of verbs in Present Perfect Subjunctive in Spanish («Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo»).

Conjugation

The conjugation of a verb in Present Perfect Subjunctive is constructed with two words.

The first word is the verb “haber” conjugated in Present Subjunctive for the right person.

The second word is the Past Participle of the verb you want to conjugate. This word is the same for all persons. Because the Past Participle is used in more than one verb tense, we have written a separate lesson about how to form the Past Participle. Click here to learn how to form the Past Participle.

That means, the resulting model is:

yo

haya

... + Past Participle of the main verb

tú

hayas

él

haya

nosotros

hayamos

vosotros

hayáis

ellos

hayan

Examples

Following the model we just learned, here are some verbs conjugated in Present Perfect Subjunctive. These verbs happen to have a regular Past Participle:

Jugar

Beber

Sentir

yo

haya jugado

haya bebido

haya sentido

tú

hayas jugado

hayas bebido

hayas sentido

él

haya jugado

haya bebido

haya sentido

nosotros

hayamos jugado

hayamos bebido

hayamos sentido

vosotros

hayáis jugado

hayáis bebido

hayáis sentido

ellos

hayan jugado

hayan bebido

hayan sentido

And here two more verbs conjugated in Present Perfect Subjunctive, only these ones have an irregular Past Participle: